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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us reading rock paper shotgun!

  But yeah, the modern web sucks. It’s all soulless algorithms and profit/rent seeking.

  Even if someone tried to make forums again, they’d probably fill up with AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird that it’s unsupported on steam deck. Doesn’t look that demanding technically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked CrossCode’s art and vibe and everything. The puzzles are good, too. But the puzzles are kind of hard in a way that tires me out.

  I guess that’s how some people feel about dark souls. “Oh, I’m glad that’s over”. That’s not quite the vibe I’m aiming for.

  Maybe I’ll play it with a friend who’s good at puzzles so I can just do the fighty parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can do // prettier-ignore, because I remember facing that exact situation.

  prettier.io/docs/ignore/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got some people really angry at me when I suggested writing some math expression with parenthesis so it would be clearer. I think someone told me that order of operations is like a natural law and not a convention, and thus everyone should know it or be able to figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficulty settings are, first and foremost, accessibility settings.

  I’m not opposed to more options but I think this tactic is distracting and generates more pushback than it wins converts.

  Are games art? I’d say so, usually. Some are more like toys than art, but many have creative expression

  If they are are, must all art be accessible to all people? Well, what does accessible mean exactly? To understand it completely? Then I’d say trivially no, because there are many books that are incomprehensible to many people. No one is going to say “House of Leaves” is inaccessible and the author did a gatekeeping by writing it as such. No one is going to say Finnegans Wake is ableist because it’s hard to understand.

  Must all aspects of all art be completable by all people? I’d also say trivially no. You might have a segment in French that doesn’t translate well. You can dub it or subtitle it, but the original experience will remain inaccessible unless the audience spends years mastering French.

  I bring that up because some games will have within the game, not a metagame menu setting, easier or harder routes. For example, Elden Ring with a big shield and spirit ashes is significantly easier than a naked parry build. Is the expectation that everyone should be able to finish in both styles? If there’s a hard mode, must everyone be able to finish it?

  Should everyone be able to trivially 100% every game?

  Personally I think the floor is everyone should be able to interface with the game. Change inputs. Add subtitles.

  I don’t really think “I can’t party this spear guy” is an accessibility problem the same way “I’m color blind and can’t read the text” is.

  But again, I don’t care if someone wants a god-mode with auto-parry. It just feels like it’s bundling some unrelated ideas together. You’re not necessarily disabled if you’re bad at parrying in dark souls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss Levis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get my clothes from the thrift store. Sadly, even that’s getting more expensive. Used to be could get jeans for $5 and now it’s more like $20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Buying power is down. If they want me to spend more, capital has to pay me more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time I realize the optimal path is really boring or tedious.

  Like, imagine you could sell junk to vendors for money, but for some reason you get more money if you sell them one at a time. Spending five minutes splitting inventory stacks sucks, but it’s 30% more gold and that’s the difference between the cool sword or the basic sword.

  A made up example, but hopefully gets the point across.

  Related: long travel times with nothing interesting or challenging happening. I remember playing some shitty MMO and you had to like run through a building, go up an elevator, and down a long hallway every time you wanted to learn skills. Just five minutes of nothing. Gotta juice those playtime stats, I guess.

  It’s different if there’s stuff to do en route. Monsters to fight or whatever. But when it’s just jogging? Very disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Not Bad At Job Hunting—30% Of Job Postings Are Fake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any org found guilty of posting a ghost role must pay one year salary to every applicant. All job postings must include the salary. If the salary is not posted, the fine will be the highest paid employee’s compensation.

  Everyone who okayed the ghost role being posted is barred from any involvement in hiring processes for life.

  That’s my fantasy, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played GW1 back when it was new. I remember it being a lot harder than gw2, but I might’ve just been bad at it. Gw2 is very forgiving though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No luck for me:

  /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by /home/myuser/Games/er_reforged/ERRv2.0.1.1-541-2-0-1-1-1762909215/ERRv2.0.1.1/internals/modengine/bin/me3)
  [RED]Error:[/]
  me3 failed to launch due to error code 1: Unknown
  

  Not finding a lot of hits online for this problem. I think updating glibc can be kind of dicey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your character's title⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play Mesmer and someone told me that your clones don’t get your title, so I stopped using titles. Not sure if that’s even true. But now I’d get decision paralysis if I tried to pick one!

  But if I did pick, I think some came from guild wars 1 achievements and the hall of monuments. I liked those ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks interesting. I didn’t really like convergence when I tried it, and the randomizer wasn’t as fun as I hoped for me.

  It says it’s easy to install too, even on Linux. Anyone done so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the one I have. They don’t make them like they used to. The Logitech controller I had in like 2008 lasted for ten years. The new one’s right shoulder button stopped working after like two.

  The good news is they honored their warranty and sent me a new one for free.

  But then the left joystick stopped going all the way up+left.

  But then honored the warranty again! That one is still kicking.

  So the lesson is: keep your receipt if you buy Logitech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s capitalism for you. The owners get all the profits. The people doing the actual labor get a salary, which is as low as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a bit ridiculous that our government would sooner use Discord than a federated social media alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a simple site with RSS, or a web forum if you really need interactivity, were all pretty much hammered out 20+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm both people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated how the office I used to work in kept the cold air blasting. I had to wear layers in August. And because of how bad the building’s HVAC was, it was still warm on the other side of the office.

  I bring this up whenever people suggest working in the office is more productive. Being physically uncomfortable is not good for focus, Jeff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?

  I think because they have a simple, shallow, understanding of the world.

  They believe racist is bad. But they don’t really know or accept why.

  They believe they are a good person. Axiomatically.

  Thus, they cannot be racist because racist is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to break into the mainstream when the mainstream is increasingly owned by rich assholes. They have a lot of influence over culture. Not total control , but enough that many people who might have found punk instead brain rot through their day in Spotify or tiktok or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How new is your computer?

  I found Pop!_OS worked out of the box fine on my new desktop.

  Mint had problems, but worked fine on my older computers.

  Back up any important software (like, on a separate drive or online). Get a couple flash drives. Try out mint, popos, bazzite. They’re all free so it doesn’t matter that much if you don’t like one.

  I don’t recommend trying to dual boot on one drive because windows is a rude room mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to repeat my topical story.

  I worked for a startup that prided itself on being “data driven”. They’d talk about how other startups were doing stupid things because they followed their feelings instead of data.

  One day in one of those all hands meetings, the CEO was taking questions. Someone said, “Studies are showing that four day work weeks are more effective on like every metric. Can we look into that?”

  The CEO said "No, we’re not doing that ". Didn’t read the linked studies. Didn’t entertain it at all. His mind was made up, and the data was irrelevant.

  Because he doesn’t really care about data. He cares about feeling smart and irreverent. He cares about being seen as a cool disruptive startup guy who’s going to grind his way to success.

  The dishonesty makes me want to puke.

  But you know what also makes me sick? All the sycophantic boot lickers that would gather round and tell him his every idea was great. The people who would work unpaid long hours to “get shit done”. Bunch of fucking wormtongues who would sell out their coworkers for crumbs.

  Maybe he was a real person once who really did care about data. But by the time I met him, he was an empty suit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The money isn’t the whole point. It’s also about control and emotions. Management wants to feel a way and they’ll pay for it. And/or make you pay for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is a societal disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I feel like everyone who would care already knows , and everyone who doesn’t care won’t care no matter what the facts say.

  You could prove definitively that LLMs summon demons that eat live babies, and they’d shrug and dismiss it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone noticed these new spam techniques used by music channels on youtube?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve enjoyed bandcamp’s writeups. They seem to be written by real people.

  I also sometimes peruse the “who else bought my favorite album this month?” listing. Find some gems and wild cards there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most people don’t have much impulse control or long term planning. They’ll buy it at full price despite having a backlog of other games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1d4-1 is 0 to 3. Sorry, not the point.

  One factor might be location. I’m in a major city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean exactly? If you think some people are just innately attractive and that’s immutable and unattainable, that’s nonsense.

  Easily changed stuff like a better haircut, better fitting clothes, a better photo, all go a long way.

  I’m a very average guy with a wardrobe of thrift store finds and band tshirts. I’m not even 6’ tall. But I did try to whole-ass engage with every potential match instead of doing bullshit like chatgpt or copy-pasted ice breakers.

  Also a real fast way to be unattractive is having an ugly worldview. Most people aren’t going to like someone who treats them like shit. Someone who has a genuine conversation and shares interests will go farther.